American Writer/Actor Living in Barcelona
I was at a bar with my friend M., a retired NYPD cop who’s fled America just as I have. We were conversing with the bartender, an older man who’s worked at that same bar since he was 15. He talked about how he’s worked there for 50 years and how close he was to the owners; they were like family.
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Han sido 10 meses de aventuras, sorpresas, y, sobre todo, cariño. Me encanta ese bar desastroso, que sigue luchando para existir contra un sistema que es cada vez más opresivo en su trato de locales pequeños de ocio no-corporativo de Barcelona. Mi historia personal con Bar 23 Robadors es larga. Empezó en 2004, cuando apenas llevaba tres meses en este país. No
Read moreI’m walking home after the bars have closed on Saturday night. A little drunk, a little melancholy. That’s how I roll lately. All of Barcelona is a little drunk and a little melancholy these days. The crisis. The streets of the Raval neighborhood, always full of party-goers a few years ago, are empty except for the Pakistani illegal beer vendors
Read moreHappy Holidays, everybody. I like Christmas and all that, but this year, I’m finding it depressing. Who’s with me? If you are, I hope today’s blog picks you up. And if it doesn’t… well, then you’re really fucked up and should get yourself to a shrink ASAP. I can only do so much, ya know. So here’s the story: I
Read moreLast night I came to Madrid to shoot my scene in Nacho Vigalondo‘s film “Open Windows”. It is a very complicated film, technically speaking, with relatively few actors. The stars of the film are Sasha Grey and Elijah Wood. Woo-hoo! I play the older (of course) friend/mentor of Sasha’s character. I don’t want to reveal anything about the film’s plot so
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